Originally published on /r/writingprompts, you can read the original post here. My journey began two hundred and fifty six years ago when I was a mere graduate student at the Academy. I spent a decade working on my thesis, a rigorous study on the rise and fall of civilizations. Funding was plentiful, as the Overseers … Continue reading The Constant
Author: Jonathan K. Webb
A Thousand Years
A thousand years of life, handed to me in the form of a prison sentence. Not even billionaires get this lucky. I would be rendered invulnerable for generations. No empire lasts that long, I shall remain patient until the prison wall's have fallen and make my escape. After all I had plenty of time. How … Continue reading A Thousand Years
Wrong Number
Truth be told, I'm not sure why I answered the call. When my phone vibrated aggressively on the surface of the particle board conference table like a small creature had been trying to break free from within the black rectangle, I checked the screen. I hadn't recognized the number, some 777 area code that I … Continue reading Wrong Number
Interception Chapter 2
Saz sat on the shredded couch, a cup of herbal tea with a splash of laze mixed in to calm his mind and help with the unwinding. "The more stress you put on the connections, the longer it takes." The witch told him. The witch, Minerva, sat next to her console and told him everything … Continue reading Interception Chapter 2
The Two Minute Rule
Prompt from here. My mother had always lived by the two minute rule, "if it'll take you less than two minutes to clean, clean it!" She would say. I had grown out of it over the years, getting lazier with every rotation of the Earth, sometimes you're just too dang tired to clean. However, I … Continue reading The Two Minute Rule
Interception Chapter 1
The world flowed around him like water through a river, he was nothing more than a rock beneath the surface, a conduit for the smooth laminar flow. He watched as photons of indistinguishable origins warped before his eyes, a streak of red here, a dash of blue there, perhaps a questionable dosage of x-rays or … Continue reading Interception Chapter 1
The Road to R-Day
On March 18th, 2067 in the suburbs of Toronto humanity made two major breakthroughs, one in science, the other in religion. A small start up known as TSD Biotech1 had come about with a revolutionary way to clone anything with a DNA strand, they called their patented process DOPPLE, because they claimed that their cloning … Continue reading The Road to R-Day
The Midnight Bus
Prompt: Your bus driver is a burly man with a mechanical leg plugged into the vehicle. The bus roars at each shift of the transmission. A vulture the size of a building is picking at freshly dismantled cars in the middle of the road. You hear the bus driver shout, “Time for battle!” Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/h09sdw/wp_your_bus_driver_is_a_burly_man_with_a/ … Continue reading The Midnight Bus
Community Meeting
Prompt: You live in a world with a giant angry ball of energy that floats around in the sky. If you look at it, you go blind. If you have exposed skin, it burns. Everyone, except you, just accepts this as "normal" Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/gqanv2/wp_you_live_in_a_world_with_a_giant_angry_ball_of/ The community center smelled of dust and cheap pizza, residents shuffled … Continue reading Community Meeting
Bo’ub
Prompt: You meet a monster straight out of a Lovecraftian horror novel. Except it isn't Cthulu or any of the more well-known ones. Instead, you meet Bob! The happy-go-lucky tentacled horror that loves going on adventures and havong a nice cup of tea! (source) Behold a floating obelisk, and its spirit, dread! The vantablack pillar … Continue reading Bo’ub